Toronto, Aug 5: Already Drones being used for delivering packages and monitoring wildlife, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may soon be used for painting murals outdoors. A team led by Paul Kry from McGill University’s school of computer science programmed tiny drones to create dot drawings — an artistic technique known as stippling. “I thought it […]

Washington: Space debris from completed missions which are a serious and ongoing threat to us can be pushed into the Earth’s atmosphere by laser impulses — causing it to burn up, scientists suggest. Inactive satellites, lens covers, and fragments from spaceship disengagements can make our communication and navigation satellites go haywire. Pieces even smaller than […]

New Delhi, July 30: The heavy rain that hit the national capital on Friday saw Delhi record its first three digit rainfall of the season at Palam — at 144 mm, the weather office said on Saturday. Delhi has received an average of 12.9 mm rainfall over the past 24 hours. The weatherman said that […]

New York, July 30: Five years after departing from Earth, NASA’s Juno spacecraft is all set to reach the farthest point in its orbit of Jupiter on Sunday to “get the science” of the giant planet with a mass two-and-a-half times that of all the other planets in our solar system combined. Known as “apojove”, […]

Agartala, July 29: The supply of essentials and fuel continues to be hit badly in Tripura for about two months now even as the state government has repeatedly sought the central government’s intervention to restore its lifeline – National Highway-8 – which has been badly damaged in adjacent Assam. Due to heavy rains and poor […]

Bangkok:  Thailand plans to increase its population of tigers by about 50 percent in the next several years, a senior official said on Tuesday. Given the current population of about 750 tigers in Thailand’s evergreen forests, the number will rise by at least 300 to add up to over 1,000 tigers by 2022, Xinhua news […]

Washington: Forty years ago, NASA Viking mission made history when it became the first to successfully land a fully operational spacecraft on Mars. As engineers and scientists planned for later missions to Mars, the rolls of microfilm containing the Viking data were stored away for safe keeping and potential later use. It would be another […]

Kolkata:  Efforts are on by Indian seismologists and geologists to jointly carry out studies with Bangladesh and Myanmar and form a common geodetic network to verify fresh data and sort out discrepancies over Earthquake related research in the region. In a recent paper in Nature Geoscience, a group of scientists published new evidence of the […]

China and China Scientists have found a new way to use plastic trash to create a cleaner diesel-like fuel that could power vehicles. The researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of California in the US hope to level up the method to allow for it to be used in actually dipping plastic […]

India has become one of the first picks for launching satellites. As a result, PSLV C-34 is launching 20 satellites of different countries. The countdown has started for launching the satellites of 17 countries across the globe by India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, in short called as PSLV. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch PSLV […]